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Psalm 106:7
Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
5that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
6We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
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At the Red Sea, Israel’s rebellion exposes the gap between having seen God’s wonders and remembering the kindness those wonders revealed.
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Psalm 103:2Praise the LORD, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,Both passages concern remembering God’s goodness: Psalm 103 urges remembrance, while Psalm 106 confesses its absence.
Exodus 14:11–12They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out …Psalm 106 names rebellion at the sea; Exodus records the people’s accusation that Moses brought them out of Egypt to die.
Psalm 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your …Both passages speak of God’s abundant loving kindness in the context of human sin.
Psalm 78:42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;Both psalms recount Israel’s failure to remember God’s saving acts.
Exodus 16:2The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;Both recount Israel’s resistance after leaving Egypt, with rebellion at the sea and murmuring against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 8:2You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was …Both connect remembrance of God’s past acts with obedience, through Israel’s failure in the psalm and a command in Deuteronomy.
Nehemiah 9:17and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to …Both recount forgotten wonders and rebellion while affirming the abundance of God’s loving kindness.
Psalm 78:11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.Both describe people forgetting the wonders God had shown them.
2 Thessalonians 2:10–12and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.Both describe a failed response to what comes from God, though Paul speaks of rejecting truth rather than forgetting wonders.
Proverbs 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?Both concern a failure concerning understanding, though Proverbs names hatred of knowledge and the psalm names uncomprehended wonders.
Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. …Both passages recount the fathers’ disobedience, and the surrounding psalm joins Jeremiah in confessing shared guilt.
1 Chronicles 21:13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”Both speak of God’s great mercy, recounted amid Israel’s rebellion in the psalm and sought amid David’s distress.
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Israel’s rebellion was real, and so was the multitude of God’s loving kindnesses; the next verse says he saved them for his name’s sake.
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